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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Algebra 1, 2015

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Exercise 2 Page 4

Isolate a using inverse operations.

a=14

To solve the equation for a, we need to isolate a using inverse operations.

9+a=23

LHS-9=RHS-9

9+a-9=23-9

Subtract terms

a=14

Hence, the solution to the equation is a=14.

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